PAHT  MFAiaiE^  :  FRES.E.\T  UEATITUDE  :  FUTURE  DUTY. 


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DELIVEKED  AT  THK  CAMP  OF  THE 


EIGHTH  REGT;  CONN.  VET.  VOL  INFANTRY, 


NEAR  Ft.  HARRISON,  yArGINIA, 


ANNUAL  NATIONAL  THANKSGIVING  DAY, 


JNTOVEDVLBEIPI      "24,  1864. 


WITH  AN  APPENDIX. 


By    MOSES  SMITH, 

CHAPLAIN  8th  C.  V. 

PUBLISHED  BY   THE  MEX   OF  THE  BE  GIMEX  T. 


Witli  gratitude  to  God  lur  tiie  Past,  we  hold  tlie  Sword 
unsheathed  for  the  Future. — Armus  of  Ihe  United  Statts. 


NEW    HAVEN : 
J.   11 .   E  i:  N  II  A  M  ,  PRINTER 
18(55. 


■FA8T  MERCIES  :  PRESENT  GRATITUDE :  FUTURE  DUTY. 


A 

DISCOUESE 

DELIVERED  AT  THE  CAMP  OF  THE 

EIGHTH  REGT.  CONN.  VET.  VOL.  INFANTRY, 

NEAR  Ft.  HARRISON,  VARGINIA, 

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ON  THE 

ANNUAL  NATIONAL  THANKSGIVING  DAY. 

T^OVEMIBEH     34:,  1864. 
WITH  AN  APPENDIX. 


By    MOSES  SMITH, 

CHAPLAIN  8tH  C  V. 

FUBLISHE D  BY  TEE  MEN  OF  THE  REGIMENT. 

With  gratitude  to  God  for  tlie  Past,  we  hold  the  Sword 
unsheathed  for  the  Future. — Armies  of  tlie  United  States. 


J.  H. 


NEW  HAVEN: 
BEN  HAM,  PRINTER. 
1865. 


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T  H  A  ISr  K  S  G- I  V  I  N 

BY  THE  PBESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

A  PROCLAMATION. 

It  has  pleased  Almighty  God  to  prolong  our  national  life  another  year,  defendine- 
us,  with  His  guardian  care,  against  unfriendly  designs  from  abroad,  and  vouchsafed 
to  us  in  His  mercy,  many  and  signal  victories  over  the  enemy,  who  is  of  our  own 
household.  It  has  also  pleased  our  Heavenly  Father  to  favor  as  well  our  citizens  in 
their  homes  as  our  soldiers  in  their  camps,  and  our  soldiers  un  the  rivers  and  seas, 
with  unusixal  health.  He  has  largely  augmented  our  free  population  by  emancipation 
and  by  emigration,  while  He  has  opened  to  us  new  sources  of  wealth,  and  has  crowned 
the  labor  of  our  workiugmen  in  every  department  of  industry  with  abundant  reward. 
Moreover,  He  has  been  pleased  to  animate  and  inspire  our  minds  and  hearts  with 
fortitude,  courage  and  resolution,  sufficient  for  the  great  trial  of  civil  war  into  which 
we  have  been  brought  by  our  adherence,  as  a  nation,  to  the  cause  of  freedom  and 
humanity,  and  to  afford  co  us  reasonable  hopes  of  an  ultimate  and  happy  deliverance 
from  all  our  dangers  and  afflictions. 

Now,  therefore,  I,  Abraham  Lincoln,  President  of  the  United  States,  do  hereby 
appoint  and  set  apart  the  last  Thursday  in  November  next  as  a  day  Avhich  I  desire  to 
be  observed  by  all  my  fellow  citizens,  wherever  they  may  then  be,  as  a  day  of  thanks- 
giving and  prayer  to  Almighty  God,  the  beneficent  Creator  and  Ruler  of  the  Universe ; 
and  I  do  further  recommend  to  my  fellow  citizens  aforesaid,  that  on  that  occasion 
they  do  reverently  humble  themselves  in  the  dust,  and  from  thence  offer  penitent 
and  fervent  prayers  and  supplications  to  the  Great  Disposer  of  Events  for  a  return  of 
the  inestimable  blessings  of  peace,  union  and  harmony  throughout  the  land  which  it 
has  pleased  Him  to  assign  as  a  dwelling  place  for  ourselves  and  our  posterity  through- 
out all  generations. 

In  testimony  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the  Seal  of  the 
,        ,     United  States  to  be  affixed.    Done  at  the  City  of  Washington,  this  20th 
L.  s.  [    day  of  October,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1864,  and  of  the  Independence 
^        '     of  the  United  States  the  eighty-ninth. 

By  the  President :  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. 

Wm.  "H.  Seward,  Secretary  of  State. 


BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY,  WILLIAM  A.  BUCKINGHAM,  GOVERNOR  OF  THE  STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT. 

A  PROCLAMATION. 

Amidst  the  struggle  for  supremacy  between  the  friends  and  the  enemies  of  national 
integrity,  and  the  conflict  of  civil  war,  the  people  of  this  Commonwealth  are  hereby 
recommended  to  observe  Thursday,  the  24tli  day  of  November  next,  as  a  day  of  pub- 
lic Tlianksgiving,  Prayer  and  Praise  to  Almighty  God. 

"  The  Lord  reigneth,  let  the  earth  rejoice." 

He  gives  his  Holy  Spirit  to  renew  the  hearts  of  men. 

He  forgives  the  guilty. 

He  saves  the  lost. 

He  has  given  us  healthful  seasons  and  fruitful  fields. 

He  is  holding  before  us  the  claims  of  the  needy,  and  permitting  us  the  sweet  privi- 
leo-e  of  realizing  how  much  more  blessed  it  is  to  give  than  to  receive. 

He  has  held  in  check  the  purposes,  defeated  the  plans,  and  weakened  the  power  of 
the  rebellion. 

He  has  crowned  our  arms  with  victory  in  the  day  of  battle. 

He  has  given  us  fortitude  to  bear  the  loss  of  loved  ones  who  have  fallen  in  the  ser- 
vice of  our  country. 

He  is  inspiring  the  people  with  a  higher  appreciation  of  the  blessings  of  liberty 
and  order,  and  a  stronger  confidence  in  the  permanency  of  our  institutions. 
He  is  advancing  the  day  of  universal  freedom. 

He  is  purifying  the  nation  by  trials,  for  the  encouragement  of  the  oppressed  and 
the  benefit  of  man. 

Let  us  ''enter  into  his  gates  with  thanksgiving  and  into  his  courts  with  pjai&'e." 
Let  us  gratefully  recognize  the  power,  wisdom  and  benevolence  of  His  Providence,, 
which  cares  for  the  falling  sparrow,  aiid  controls  the  destinies  of  nations. 

Let  us  joyfully  present  all  our  offerings  in  the  name  and  through  the  merits  of  His 
Son,  our  Mediator  and  Redeemer. 
Given  under  my  hand  and  the  Seal  of  the  State  at  Norwich,  this  twenty-eighth  day 
,        J     of  October,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
]  L.  s.  f    sixty-four,  and  of  the  Independence  of  the  United  States  of  America 
'        '     the  eighty-ninth.  WM.  A.  BUCKINGHAM. 

By  His  Excellency,  the  Governor : 
J.  Hammond  Trumbull,  Secretary  of  State. 


3DISOOURSE. 


Let  the  hi&h  praises  of  god  be  in  their  mouth,  and  a  two-edged  sword 
IN  THEIR  HAND."— Psalms  149  :  6. 


SAD^q-ESS  rather  than  mirth,  mourning  rather  than  festivity, 
are  the  natural  concomitants  of  war.  Far  separated  from  those 
we  love,  the  graves  of  our  comrades  in  arms  dotting  all  this 
"  sunny  South,"  many  more  "  brave  boys  "  yet  to  fall,  and  our 
own  names  not  improbably  to  be  on  the  dead  list,  rejoicing  now 
might  seem  inopportune.  But  joy  and  sorrow  go  hand  in  hand 
in  this  world.  The  richest  delights  beneath  the  sun  are  sweets 
extracted  from  bitter  trials.  And,  in  truth,  with  all  our  griefs, 
the  nation  has  higher  cause  for  thanksgiving  to-day  than  it  ever 
had  before.  ISTot  inappropriately,  then,  as  we  believe,  may  the 
inspired  anthem  of  old  be  adopted  as  the  key-note  of  our  services 
here : — the  high  praises  of  God  in  our  mouth,  and  a  two-edged 
sword  in  our  hand. 

It  shall  be  my  aim  to  present  some  of  the  recent  favors  of  God 
which  call  for  our  special  gratitude, — in  the  words  of  the  text,  our 
"  high  praises "  ;  and  also  to  show  that  both  philanthropy  and 
Christianity, — love  to  God,  and  love  to  men, — demand  that  this 
war  be  prosecuted  persistently,  unflinchingly,  triumphantly, — a 
two-edged  sword  in  our  hand. 

I.  The  providential  favors  vouchsafed  to  us  as  a  nation. — I  do 
not  propose  to  so  much  as  enumerate  all  the  blessings  conferred. 
Individuals  and  nations  are  never  on  earth  so  far  deserted  of  God 
as  not  to  be  still  the  recipients  of  blessings  more  than  tongue 
can  speak  or  pen  record.  But  at  times  unusual  favors  are  be- 
stowed, and  special  thanksgivings  are  demanded.  To  such  only 
do  I  direct  your  attention  in  this  discourse.     Note,  then, 

Ist.y  The  heaJthfulness  of  the  season  'past. — When  the  Army, 
of  the  James  had  taken  its  position  at  Bermuda  Hundred^  in 


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May  last,  Richmond  papers  mocked  at  our  folly.  They  boast- 
fully declared  that  miasmatic  fevers  alone  would  soon  repel  the 
Yankee  invaders ;  for,  said  they,  no  part  of  all  the  valley  of  the 
James  is  so  unhealthy  as  Bermuda  Hundred.  When,  in  June, 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac  stretched  its  lines  afar  to  our  left,  in 
front  of  Petersbui^,  again  arose  the  shout  of  anticipated 
triumph.  For,  said  they,  a  worse  fate  than  befel  the  victims 
of  Chickahominy  swamps  must  be  the  lot  of  the  army  that  dares 
intrench  under  those  fogs  and  beside  those  meadows.  Doubtless 
these  prophecies  of  evil  might  have  been  fearfully  true  in  some 
seasons.  But  such  a  summer  as  God  has  given,  memory  recalls 
not.  Week  after  week  of  almost  cloudless  sky  rolled  on,  streams 
vanished,  vegetation  withered,  men  almost  broiled  alive  in  those 
trenches,— one  might  have  believed  that  the  fiery  orb  of  heaven 
was  frowning  death  on  both  those  opposing  armies  ; — but  mark  the 
result.  Those  swamps  became  as  dry  as  highlands  ;  the  damps 
of  disease  were  imprisoned  as  beneath  a  crust  of  iron.  Pure, 
health-giving  water  alone  could  be  obtained ;  and  at  the  season 
when  depletion  from  sickness  was  expected  by  ourselves  to 
become  the  greatest,  surgeons  found  the  health  of  the  troops 
to  be  even  improving.  However,  it  is  proverbially  true  that 
one  extreme  in  nature  follows  the  opposite.  Accordingly  friend 
and  foe  expected  full  recompense  in  autumn—a  rainy  season, 
only  the  more  severe  succeeding  such  a  drouth.  But  more 
wonderfully  in  our  favor  has  been  the  autumn  than  even  the 
summer.  Up  to  the  last  half  of  November,  the  heavy  rains- 
have  but  commenced.  In  like  manner  guardian  angels  have 
protected  our  soldiers  and  seamen  farther  south.  From  the 
opening  of  the  war,  the  rebellion  has  counted  the  yellow  fever  as 
a  sure  ally ;  but  an  ally,  as  these  summers  have  proved, — a  la 
Napoleon  and  Lord  Russell, — menacing  but  not  striking,  showing 
its  power  and  disposition,  but  restrained  by  omnipotent  love. 
This  ever-dreaded  scourge  of  our  Southern  sea-coast,  by  its 
appearance  at  one  point,  compels  us  to  recognize  God's  care  with 
devouter  gratitude  that  other  garrisons  were  untinged,  and  that 
no  more  more  of  the  soldiers  •  at  Newbern  fell.  The  summer 
campaign  has  been  unparalleled.  The  severities  of  labor  and  un- 
remitted watching  have  been  terribly  exhausting ;  but  the  health 
and  vigor  of  our  soldiers  in  every  department  of  the  service  has 
exceeded  expectation. 

Then,  too,  at  home,  what  numbers  have  been  bowed  down  with 
grief!    Who,  in  all  the  land,  has  not  lived  an  unnatural  life  of 


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anxiety  ?  What  hospital  in  all  the  Xorth  has  not  been  reeking 
with  the  stench  of  putrefaction  and  death  ?  But  pestilence, 
which  is  thus  ever  invited  to  sweep  the  lands  of  fighting  people^ 
has  been  stayed  by  "hand  divine."  Most  truthfully  does  the 
President,  in  his  proclamation  appointing  this  day  of  national 
Thanksgiving,  say  :  "  It  has  pleased  our  Heavenly  Father  to  favor 
as  well  our  citizens  in  their  homes  as  our  soldiers  in  their  camps, 
and  our  soldiers  on  the  rivers  and  seas  with  unusual  health." 

But  drouth,  which  thus  proved  a  blessing  to  these  armies  in 
Virginia,  is  usually  the  severest  scourge  which  an  agricultural 
nation  like  ours  can  know.  If  bread  fails,  our  enemies  cer- 
tainly triumph.    Hence,  note, 

2(^,  Our  bountiful  harvests. — During  those  scorching  weeks 
of  June,  July,  and  even  August,  who  but  expected  that  want 
must  ensue  ?  But  He  who  controls  the  destinies  of  nations 
looked  down  as  carefully  on  fields  of  grass  and  grain,  as  other 
fields  of  canvass  and  of  marshalled  men.  At  times  He  sent 
the  gentle  showers.  They  came  like  angels'  visits— rare  ;  but 
sufficient  to  secure  autumnal  harvests  and  feed  the  grazing  herds. 
To-day,  instead  of  want  at  home,  there  is  fullness.  In  the  army, 
instead  of  shortened  rations,  there  is  Thanksgiving  m  abundance. 
And  from  all  our  ports  goes  forth,  as  in  times  of  peace,  the  large 
surplus  of  food  for  foreign  want.  War  summons  multitudes 
from  the  plough  and  scythe  ;  its  insatiate  maw  devours  mountain 
heaps  of  food ;  but  God's  favor  to  the  husbandman  has  more  than 
supplied  our  fullest  need.  It  has  made  foreign  people  still  our 
dependents,  and  is  constantly  replenishing  our  treasury  with 
millions  of  revenue.  By  these  two  bountiful  gifts, — fruitful  fields 
and  healthful  seasons, — God  has,  from  the  beginning  of  this  war, 
kept  the  pulse  of  national  life  beating  with  health  and  vigor. 
Every  department  of  industry  has  flourished,  immigration  has 
continued  to  pour  into  our  borders,  new  States  have  been  added 
to  the  Union ;  and,  with  all  the  vast  expenditure  of  blood  and 
treasure,  the  nation,  instead  of  being  exhausted,  has  been 
constantly  growing,  and  has  far  more  abundant  resources  than 
when  first  it  drew  the  double-edged  sword. 

But  vast  resources  require  still  more  vast  intelligence  and 
strong -principled  morality.  Mere  greatness  becomes  unwiel- 
dy; —  a  source  of  weakness.  For  years  past  the  fear  has 
been  reasonably  entertained  that  we,  as  a  nation,  should  fall 
in  pieces  by  our  own  gravity.  Especially,  at  the  opening  of 
the  war,  for  two  sad  years  did  it  seem  that  no  man  had  wis- 


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dom  enough  to  Avield  the  armies,  and  no  cabinet  of  men  wis«- 
dom  and  moral  courage  sufficient  to  handle  the  material  re- 
sources of  this  land ;  therefore,  note  God's  favor  in  giving  us, 
Sd,  A  worthy  Lieutenant- General. — I  do  not  refer  to  Ulysses 
Grant  to  eulogize  him.  He  needs  not  the  poor  compliment  of 
words.  All  through  the  history  of  this  war  the  nation  has  been 
eager  to  make  a  hero.  Newspapers,  parties,  and  pulpits  have 
vied  with  each  other  in  attempting  to  Napoleonize  our  generals. 
But  God  will  not  allow  the  honor  of  our  success  to  be  laid  at  the 
feet  of  any  man.  The  enemy  had,  from  the  outset,  an  able  and 
experienced  officer ;  yes,  several  of  them.  Never  shall  it  be  said 
that  slavery  fell  for  lack  of  large  means,  wise  counsels,  or  the 
ablest  of  modern  generals.  Nor,  on  the  other  hand,  shall  it  ever 
be  said  that  the  Government  triumj)hed  in  this  contest  because 
there  chanced  to  be  on  earth  at  this  juncture  a  man  of  such 
surpassing  ability, — one  of  those  few  giants  of  men  Avho,  in 
himself,  was  a  host,  and  of  course  gained  success.  The  man  who 
leads  our  armies  has  been  developed  by  the  necessities  of  the 
times.  He  is  a  determined  general,  as  he  was  a  persevering 
tanner, — "  a  very  obstinate  man."  God  has  given  him  to  us,  not 
that  he  may  wreath  around  his  own  brow  a  laurel  of  undying 
fame  ;  he  has  not  been  allowed  personally  to  achieve  the  successes 
granted  to  our  arms  this  summer  past ;  but  he  does  embody  the 
cool,  unflinching  determination  of  an  intelligent,  liberty-possessing 
and  liberty-loving  people.  He  does  centralize  the  efficiency  of 
all  our  armies  ;  and,  more  than  all,  he  silences  that  mean,  cruel, 
devilish  jealousy,  which,  on  the  altar  of  personal  ambition,  has 
slaughtered  thousands  of  the  choicest  sons  of  liberty,  and,  at 
times,  well  nigh  betrayed  the  whole  army  and  national  Capital 
into  rebel  possession.  For  such  a  man, — who  holds  the  con- 
fidence of  the  people,  and  the  entire  confidence  of  the  army ; 
Avho  loves  his  country  more  than  personal  honor ;  who  commands 
all  our  armies,  and  yet  controls  his  appetite  ;■ — for  such  a  man  we 
thank  God  to-day. 

But  the  efforts  of  the  greatest  general  or  the  noblest  man, 
on  the  field,  might  be  more  than  paralyzed  by  a  base  Presi- 
dent, an  imbecile  Cabinet,  or  an  infamous  Congress.  Even  a 
Cromwell  was  forced  to  become  a  dictator ;  and  Washington,  at 
the  head  of  the  army,  Avell  nigh  failed  through  the  pusallanimity 
of  some  of  the  members  of  the  Continental  Congress.  There- 
fore, note  God's  favor  in, 

The  loisdoin  and  moral  power  of  the    Government  at 


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Washinglon.^1  do  not  wish  to  waste  words  in  defense  of  the 
Lincoln  Administration.  Its  right  actions  need  no  defense  ;  they 
are  recorded  in  letters  of  living  light  upon  the  imperishable  scroll 
of  human  progress.  Its  failures, — and  who  are  more  sadly 
sensible  of  the  defects  of  the  White  House,  or  the  wickedness  of 
its  surroundings,  than  the  President  and  his  warmest  friends  ; — its 
failures,  I  say,  no  words  can  amend.  But  that,  with  such  a 
stupendous  work  to  carry  forward ;  with  so  many  at  home  and 
abroad  seeking  to  embarrass  and  perplex  every  eifort,  the  ship  of 
State  has  not  actually  stranded  and  broken,  is  evidence  of  Divine 
favor  even  through  those  who  sought  it  not.  We  have  no 
hesitation  in  asserting  that  no  President  of  these  United  Statesi 
and  no  Cabinet  since  the  world  began,  have  had  before  them  so 
mighty  a  task  as  has  been  attempted  by  the  present  Adminis- 
tration. To  crush  the  most  gigantic  rebellion  the  world  has  ever 
seen,  and  still  be  governed  by  clemency  at  every  step  ;  to  be 
called  upon  to  use  unlimited  power,  and  yet  draw  all  that  power 
direct  from  the  people  ;  to  need  almost  boundless  resources,  and 
yet  possess  nothing  save  what  is  the  simple  gift  of  the  people  ;  to 
be  governed  by  the  Constitution,  (i.  e.  the  spirit  of  it,)  Avhen  that 
instrument  contemplated  no  such  exigency,  and  actually  made  no 
provisions  for  such  ;  to  be  goaded  by  friends  and  mocked  by  foes ; 
to  be  exposed  to  foreign  invasion,  and  threatened  by  intestine 
revolts ;  to  sail,  I  say,  our  Great  Western "  through  such  a 
tempest,  has  been  the  more  than  herculean  labor  to  be  performed. 
When,  therefore,  we  are  able  to  record  that  all  internal  insur- 
rections have  been  prevented ;  all  foreign  wars  evaded ;  that 
steady  progress  has  been  made  against  the  rebellion,  and  against 
Slavery  also — that  primal  cause  of  the  rebellion ;  that  after  all 
the  enormous  drains  uj)on  the  treasury,  public  credit  has  not 
failed ;  that  while  heavier  and  still  heavier  taxes  have  been  laid 
upon  the  people,  their  cqfidence  in  the  Government  has  beenM 
increasing ;  that  while  we  hold  in  the  field  the  largest  armies  on 
the  globe,  the  rights  of  every  true  citizen  are  as  sacred  as  in  the 
most  profound  peace  ;  it  is  no  Pharisaic  boast  to  say  that  God's 
hand  is  manifest  as  never  before  in  any  nation's  history.  Admit 
even  all  that  the  enemies  of  the  Administration  claim,  that  the 
past  four  years  have  witnessed  more  fraud  and  corruption  in  our 
Government  than  any  previous  presidential  term,  still  we  need  but 
remember  that  a  hundred  times  the  usual  skill  and  probity  of 
government  officials  would  not  suffice  to  offset  the  augmented 
difficulties  that  have  been  encountered, — to  be  compelled  in  all 
2 


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sincerity  to  say,  thank  God  for  such  a  Congress,  for  such  a 
Cabinet,  for  such  a  President  as  has  been  ours. 

But  there  is  always  an  ultimate  power  back  of  thrones  or 
.chairs  of  state.  Under  any  form  of  government,  the  voice  of  the 
people,  sooner  or  later,  will  be  heard — their  will  obeyed.  In 
democratic  governments  the  peo23le  are  acknowledged  sovereign,, 
and  their  word  is  law.  In  such  a  Government  as  ours,  an 
ignorant  populace  might  override  generals,  presidents,  congress, 
all  combined.  Therefore,  we  will  not  fail  to  acknowledge  to-day 
God's  marked  favor  in, 

5t7i^  The  increase  of  intelligence  among  the  people. — At  the 
outset  of  the  war  we  were  excessively  self-conceited — always  a 
mark  of  ignorance.  Every  nevfspaper  correspondent  could,  in 
his  own  opinion,  lead  an  army ;  and  almost  every  citizen  at  home 
could  conduct  a  campaign.  The  better  judgment  of  the  wisest 
men  was  frequently  overruled  by  the  clamors  of  the  ignorant 
masses.  War  has,  in  the  past,  been  no  hand-maid  of  learning. 
It  has,  indeed,  often  done  what  it  is  doing  for  the  South  now — 
broken  down  mighty  barriers  and  prepared  the  way  for  the 
subsequent  progress  of  learning ;  but  for  the  time,  it  has  been 
wont  to  suppress  investigation,  just  as  in  the  Southern  States 
during  this  fratricidal  strife.  Institutions  of  learning  have  been 
the  first  to  suffer ;  information,  limited  before,  has  become  only 
more  inaccessible ;  and  books,  a  drug  in  the  market.*  With 
most  fervent  gratitude  we  note  that  the  reverse  has  been  true  in 
all  the  North.  Schools,  colleges,  seminaries  of  science  of  every 
kind,  are  fully  sustained.  Books  and  papers  of  all  description 
have  been  issued  beyond  precedent.  Investigation  of  measures 
#  and  politi;^s  characterize  alike  the  soldier  in  camp  and  the  wife, 
or  even  child,  at  home.  Principles  of  government,  political 
economy,  home  policy,  foreign  relations,  were  never  so  well 
understood,  nor  knowledge  of  every  kind  so  generally  difi*used 
among  our  people.  J^'ewspapers  are  not  mere  chroniclers  of 
events  or  partizan  organs,  they  discuss  the  foundations  of 
governments  and  constitutional  rights ;  they  appeal  to  history ; 
tbey  teach  geography ;  they  illustrate  philosophy.    God  has  not 


*  I  have  been  informed  that  a  Chaplain  who,  for  several  months,  was  a 
prisoner  of  war  in  the  Confederate  States,  purchased  and  brought  home  with 
him  valuable  books  to  the  amount  of  about  $100.  The  hook-seller  told  him  that 
there  was  no  call  for  books,  and  disposed  of  them  at  prices  (Confederate  currency) 
lower  than  the  same  books  could  be  purchased  at  the  North, 


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allowed  the  sulphurous  breath  of  war  to  suffocate  the  North,  but 
rather  has  made  the  flashes  of  artillery  and  the  gleaming  of 
bayonets  a  healthful  stimulus  to  intellectual  activity.  After  four 
years  of  schooling  imder  such  tuition,  freemen  of  the  North  could 
not  be  hoodwinked  by  specious  pretences  nor  janus-faced 
candidates.  They  could  and  they  did  make  their  own  election. 
They  chose  cruel  war  rather  than  a  more  cruel  peace ;  burdensome 
taxes  rather  than  more  burdensome  relief.  We  can  safely  say 
that  our  people  cast  their  votes  at  this  last  grand  national 
parliament — 8th  inst. — with  a  clearness  of  undertandiug  and  a 
coolness  of  judgment  that  demonstrate  higher  intellectual  capa- 
bilities for  self-government  than  we  or  any  other  people  ever 
before  exhibited. 

But  even  intelligence  will  not  suffice  to  preserve  a  free 
government.  Both  material  aud  mental  wealth  have  been,  aye, 
are  to-day,  employed  in  attempting  to  overthrow  the  best  govern- 
ment,— unless  we  except  the  Theocracy  of  old, — that  men  ever 
enjoyed.  Self-government  implies  the  power  to  govern  one's 
self.  Republican  institutions  can  permanently  exist  only  where 
men  possess  the  higher  virtue  of  willing  obedience,  as  well  as  the 
other  but  lower  excellence  of  wisdom  to  rule.  War  has  usually 
proved  destructive  to  piety,  and  degrading  to  the  moral  status  of 
nations.    Note,  therefore,  with  unfeigned  gratitude  to-day, 

Qth^    Ihe  growth  of  moral  and  gospel  piety  in  our 

land. — During  the  whole  vrar  thus  far,  our  churches  have  been 
enlarging  rather  than  decaying.  New  ones  have  been  forming 
both  East  and  West.  Houses  of  worship  have  been  going  up 
along  the  whole  of  our  frontier.  All  the  old  organizations  of 
christian  benevolence  are  vigorous  and  extending ;  and  new 
channels  of  activity  and  love  are  rapidly  opening  to  reach  the 
neglected  and  sorrowing.  Widows  and  fatherless  ones  are 
multiplied,  but  christian  sympathy  is  less  wanting  than  in  former 
days.  Hospitals  overflow  with  suffering,  but  commissions  of 
charity  pass  not  one  aching  body  or  lonely  heart.  Freedmen, 
refugees,  and  prisoners  of  ^^•ar,  by  multitudes,  accumulate  within 
our  borders ;  but  niggard  parsimony,  selfish  caste,  nor  wicked 
revenge  is  allowed  to  abate  one  particle  from  the  generous  supply 
accorded  to  them  all.  If,  at  the  commencement  of  this  w^ar,  we 
trusted  m  ourselves,  we  liave  learned  that  there  is  a  "  God  of 
battles."  Instead  of  the  infidel  sentiment  so  rampant  then, — 
"  No  Sabbath  in  war,'' — silent  guns  and  unmarshalled  armies 
weekly  testify,  God's  day  is  sacred.     Instead  of  the  atheistic 


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pi-inciple,  "  God's  providence  favors  those  who  have  the  largest 
cannon,"  the  admission  universally  obtains,  "  Prayer  moves  the 
arm  that  rules  the  world."  Instead  of  the  God-defying  boast, 
We'll  fight  our  own  battles,  nor  care  we  a  damn  for  the  nigger," 
everywhere  beneath  the  "red,  white,  and  blue,"  tardy  justice  at 
length  acknowledges  "  white  and  black  the  same."  "No  Fugitive 
Slave  Law  now  taints  our  Statute  Book,  save  to  remind  us  of  past 
complicity  with  crime.  No  slave-groan  is  heard  at  the  steps  of 
our  Capitol,  for  all  United  States  territory  is  forever  free.  No 
Dred  Scott  decision  now  deprives  the  negro  of  his  manhood  by 
refusing  his  testimony  in  the  courts.  .  The  Ethiopian,  alike  with 
the  European,  if  he  proves  his  desert,  is  a  man  in  this  nation — in  this 
uniform,  a  hero.  Four  years  ago  we  would  have  pledged  our 
national  honor  that  slavery  should  never  be  touched  in  the  States  ; 
we  would  have  spilled  our  choicest  blood,  if  need  be,  that  no 
black  man  should  lift  his  hand  against  the  legal  owner  of  flesh  and 
blood.  To-day  two  hundred  thousand  men  of  color  stand  with 
us  in  arms,  and  twenty-one  States,  by  adopting  the  Baltimore 
Platform,  have  virtually  declared  that  slavery  shall  be  utterly 
and  forever  blotted  from  our  land.  No  page  of  profane  history 
records  such  results  of  war.  It  is  not  the  nature  of  bloodshed 
to  soften  the  sensibilities,  to  develop  gentle  charity,  to  purify 
moral  perceptions,  and  quicken  conscience  ;  but  God  has  made 
even  "  the  wrath  of  man  to  praise  Him." 

We  do  not  stand  here  to  boast  of  our  piety, — heaven  knows 
and  blushes  at  our  sins ; — but  piety  has  verily  been  developed,  and 
He,  who  Avould  have  spared  guilty  Sodom  had  but  ten  righteous 
men  been  found  therein,  has  arisen  in  our  behalf.  Note, 
therefore, 

7th,  Our  successes  in  battle. — The  4th  of  August,  A.  D.,  1864, 
cannot  fail  to  be  an  epoch  in  American  history.  That  morning 
dawned  with  heaviness  upon  our  people.  The  Army  of  the 
Potomac  mourned  in  despondency  over  the  recent  great  failure 
of  the  "  crater  ;  "  disaster  had  clouded  our  prospects  in  Western 
Virginia;  and  in  Georgia,  success  or  defeat  seemed  to  hang  in 
even  balance.  The  campaign  had  been  opened  with  high  hopes, 
and  been  prosecuted  with  unparalleled  vigor;  but  up  to  that 
date  nowhere  with  decisive  results.  That  day  had  been  ap- 
pointed by  our  President  as  a  day  of  national  humiliation  and 
prayer.  Such  appointments  have  too  many  times  been  precursors 
of  solemn  mockeries ;  but  we  have  reason  to  believe  that,  while 
multitudes  offered  no  acceptable  service  that  day ;  while  iniquity 


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still  unrepented  of,  was  provoking  Jehovah's  just  retribution,  there 
was  prayer  such  as  God  delights  to  hear.  That  was  a  day,  the 
like  of  which  has  not  been  observed  since  the  days  of  the 
Revolution.  From  that  day  the  tide  of  battle  began  to  set 
decidedly  in  our  favor.  The  very  next  morning  beheld 
Commodore  Farragut  passing  successfully  that  gauntlet  of  fire 
and  proudly  mastering  Mobile  Bay.  Then  Atlanta,  proving 
truly  "  the  Gate  City  "  to  the  South  and  Southeast, — Atlanta,  I 
say,  to  Sherman ;  the  Shenandoah  to  Sheridan ;  the  Weldon 
Railroad  on  the  left  and  Fort  Harrison  on  the  right  of  these  lines ; 
hope  throughout  the  army  and  confidence  th^'oughout  the  people, 
all  attest  the  favors  God  has  bestowed  upon  us.  Through  divine 
grace,  also,  all  our  disappointments  and  delays  have  been  made 
to  work  out  lessons  of  wisdom  and  moral  principle,  and  thus  have 
proved  successes  only  second  to  those  achieved  with  the  eclat  of 
victory.  But  chiefest  of  all  our  successes  against  this  rebellion, 
and  crowning  them  all  thus  far,,  is  that  peaceful  victory  at  the 
North  in  "  the  battle  of  the  ballots."  It  was  well  said,  a  few 
weeks  since,  by  a  democratic  declaimer  in  western  New  York, 
that  if  he  could  shut  up  the  Presbyterian  churches  for  two 
months  he  could  insure  the  election  of  McClellan  by  a  large 
majority.  It  was  also  well  proposed  by  one  of  our  most 
prominent  religious  journals,  that  while  the  husbands,  brothers 
and  fathers  should  go  to  the  polls  on  the  8th  inst.,  the  wives 
and  sisters,  and  children  should  spend  the  day  in  prayer  at  home. 
There  never  has  been  an  election  in  this  land,  if  on  earth,  which 
has  been  prayed  over  like  this ;  and  never  one  which  se- 
cured such  beaven-sent  blessings  as  we  believe  this  has  secured ; 
for  we  regard  this  as  a  great  victory  for  our  armies  to  save 
multitudes  of  precious  lives ;  a  victory  for  the  whole  Union  now 
to  be  restored  ;  a  victory  for  liberty  and  Christianity  thereby  to 
be  advanced  throughout  the  world.  It  is  just  such  a  victory 
over  treason  in  every  form  as  was  needed,  but  such  as  man  could 
not  have  secured.  To  God  be  the  praise  for  victories  in  war, 
in  politics,  and  in  morals,  for  all  have  been  made  to  conspire 
to  the  same  end.  Not  less  worthy  of  note  in  recounting  the 
special  favors  of  God  are, 

8^A,  The  haffled  counsels  of  the  enemy. — Not  the  North  alone, 
and  its  friends,  have  been  praying  during  this  conflict  of  arms. 
Jefferson  Davis  has  repeatedly  appealed  to  heaven  for  a  vin- 
dication of  the  rights  of  the  South.  Multitudes  within  that 
Confederacy  have  sincerely  implored  divine  help.    God  has  not 


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refused  their  request.  He  will  vindicate  the  rights  of  the 
South,  though  in  a  manner  better  than  they  themselves  had 
desired.  Probably  never  longing  hearts  prayed  for  earthly 
blessing  more  earnestly  than  those  multitudes  at  the  South,  in 
their  distress,  prayed  for  the  election  of  George  B.  McClellan  as 
President  of  these  United  States  for  the  coming  four  years.  'Nov 
were  -prayers  in  word  alone  presented ;  every  effort  was  made 
that  could  effect  the  result.  Three  large  military  movements 
were  projected ;  the  friends  of  the  Confederacy  at  the  North 
were  organized ;  its  friends  in  Canada  conspired ;  money  was 
freely  sent ;  arms  ^ere  secured  in  abundance ;  riots  were  to 
be  raised ;  Confederate  prisoners  in  our  possession  released ; 
our  cities  burned;  our  frontier  pillaged;  fraudulent  votes 
manufactured ;  in  a  word,  a  peaceful  election  was  to  be 
overawed,  and  rebellion  at  once  made  victorious  That  the 
whole  of  such  a  programme  should  have  failed  is  more  than 
surprising — is  providential.  And  then,  when  we  remember  that 
each  of  these  grand  plots  was  revealed  just  in  time  to  be  not 
only  prevented,  (prevented  if  we  except  the  St.  Albans  raid,)  but 
turned  to  our  success ;  even  made  to  repel  all  patriots  from  the 
cause  that  must  resort  to  such  measures,  then  must  we  believe 
that  even  the  prayers  of  the  rebels  were  answered  in  our  favor. 
That  as  verily  as  the  counsels  of  Ahithophel  of  old  were 
turned  to  foolishness,  so  the  counsels  of  the  rebellion  in  both 
prayer  and  effort  have  been  overturned  by  God  himself  From 
every  quiet  fireside  in  all  the  North,  from  every  soldier's  heart 
that  swells  with  the  remembrance  of  home,  sweet  home,  ought 
special  thanksgivings  to  ascend  to-day  for  these  baffled  counsels  of 
all  our  foes.  Only  one  more  cause  of  devout  gratitude  will  I 
note,  although  I  have  by  no  means  numbered  all  the  radiant 
constellation,  and  that  one  is, 

9th,  The  exhibition  of  the  inherent  poiver  and  majestic  excellence 
of  free  institutions. — We  did  not  ourselves,  much  less  did  other 
people,  begin  to  appreciate,  before  this  war,  republican  govern- 
ment. Despots  of  the  old  world  had  so  constantly  reiterated 
the  assertion  that  republics  must,  from  their  very  nature,  possess 
an  element  of  weakness — that  we  had  accepted  the  plausable 
sophism  as  veritable  fact.  There  was  a  mighty  element  of 
weakness  within  our  Government,  but  it  was  not  an  inherent  one. 
The  furnace  of  war  has  at  once  revealed  that  base  alloy  admitted 
by  our  fathers  into  the  body  politic,  and  also  the  inherent 
quality  of  the  true  metal.     With  all  the  incubus  of  slavery, 


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our  nation  has  flourislied  beyond  precedent;  but  this  was 
attributed  merely  to  our  wide  and  rich  domain,  not  to  the 
character  of  our  institutions.  ISTay,  it  was  constantly  believed 
that,  made  up  as  we  have  been  of  immigrants  from  every  land 
beneath  the  sun,  we  possessed  no  real  power;  in  a  word,  that  we 
were  not  properly  a  government,  but  only  a  conglomeration. 
The  South  believed  that  we  were  a  mere  herd  of  dollar- 
worshipers.  They  no  more  than  the  old  world  could  perceive 
any  central  power.  Thank  God  that  we  had  no  central  power 
such  as  other  nations  lean  upon.  When  the  blow  was  struck  at 
the  National  Government,  it  was  not  struck  at  the  President, 
or  a  court,  or  even  a  standing  army ;  it  was  struck  at  our  very 
selves.  Other  people  may  rally  for  their  king,  for  their  royal 
prerogative,  ancestral  renown,  or  titled  estates;  we  rallied 
for  our  rights,  our  liberties,  and  sacred  honor.  Educate  a 
man  to  understand  his  rights  and  appreciate  his  liberties,  then 
quicken  his  heart  to  a  true  perception  of  his  sacred  honor,  and 
you  have  the  strongest  esprit  de  corps  of  which  man  is  capable. 
Because  then  that  through  all  the  ^N'orth  the  free  school  and 
the  free  church  had  been  educating  and  inspiring  all  classes 
and  nationalities,  therefore  so  strangely  to  the  view  of  all  outsiders 
have  these  heterogeneous  elements  assimilated.  We  do  not 
so  much  aim  to  make  our  citizens  Americans  as  men ;  hence, 
whoever  strikes  at  the  American  Government,  strikes  at  the 
manhood  of  every  individual  of  the  nation.  Is  it  any  wonder 
that  men  here  are  patriotic  ? — that  a  free  government,  resting 
upon  free  intelligence  and  free  Christianity,  should  need,  in  time 
of  peace,  only  a  minimum  army,  and  yet  exert  its  maximum  strength 
in  time  of  war  ?  It  is  this  manhood  principle — the  fact  that 
every  individual  in  the  whole  United  States  has  some  personal 
interest  at  stake,  and  for  which  he  will  rally,  if  need  be, — that 
constitutes  the  inherent  power  and  majestic  excellence  of  free 
institutions.  We  were  not  aware  that  education  and  Christi- 
anity had  so  far  leavened  the  ignorant  and  immoral  crowds 
that  have  been  flocking  to  our  shores. 

But  we  feel  a  true  Christian  pride  in  beholding  such  an 
exhibition  as  the  present  affords.  It  is  no  idle  boast  to  say 
that  the  eyes  of  the  world  are  now  upcin  us.  Therefore  by 
the  triumph  of  government  and  law  in  ending  this  unnatural 
war,  the  friends  of  true  manhood,  Christian  manhood,  God-like 
manhood  will  everywhere  take  heart,  and  a  pure  Christianity  go 
forth  anew  to  convert  the  world.  I^or  need  we  wait  for  the  end. 
The  exhibition  already  made,  the  fierce  conflict  sustained  these 


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long  bloody  years,  and  then  a  majority  of  the  whole  people  of 
the  whole  Union,  rebel  States  included,  rising  tip  and  calmly 
and  understandingly  declaring,  man  by  man,  that  the  contest 
shall  be  carried  through  to  a  righteous  settlement,  is  the  most 
sublime  spectacle  in  the  annals  of  time.  The  majestic  faith 
with  which  our  people  moved  to  the  momentous  decision  of 
that  day,  and  the  unfaltering  determination  to  abide  by  that 
decision,  whatsoever  it  might  be,  demonstrate  a  self-conscious 
power  which  cannot  exist  save  in  a  government  resting  upon 
the  evei^lasting  foundation  of  free  truth. 

With  such  a  government  assailed,  we  scarcely  need  inspi- 
ration to  say,  "Let  a  two-edged  sword  be  in  your  hand." 
Self-defense  alone  would  seem  to  demand  that  so  long  as 
there  lives  a  creature  ignorant  or  wicked  enough  to  touch 
one  stone  of  this  sacred  temple  of  liberty  and  manhood,  so 
long  shall  my  sword,  like  cherubim  at  the  gate  of  Eden,  turn 
every  way  to  guard  the  consecrated  inclosure.  And  when  in 
addition,  God  has  been  manifestly  leading  all  the  way  through 
this  wilderness  of  war,  are  we  such  faithless,  craven  souls,  that, 
like  wicked  Israel  of  old,  we  would  turn  back  when  upon  the 
very  borders  of  the  long-sought  Canaan?  Nay,  verily.  For, 
we  hold  that,  , 

II.  Love  to  God  a7id  love  to  men^  patriotisni^  'philantJiropy  and 
Christianity^  all  conspire  in  the  demand  that  this  war  he  'prosecu- 
ted until  we  achieve  complete  success.  Let  it  not  be  supposed 
that  we  cherish  malicious  revenge  toward  even  the  arch-trai- 
tors who  have  brought  all  this  woe  upon  our  land.  Ven- 
geance is  God's  prerogative.  We  would,  with  Gen.  Butler,* 
in  the  magnanimity  of  our  success,  extend  the  hand  of  cor- 
dial welcome  to  every  one  who  can  be  picrsuaded  now  to 
return  to  rightful  allegiance.  We  would,  as  the  Administra- 
tion has  ever  been  ready  to  do,  present  the  amnesty  with 
Gospel  freeness  and  Gospel  fullness,  "whosoever  will,"  shall 
be  gladly,  heartily  received.  For  we  love  them  all,  and  hate 
but  their  sin.  Yet  even  the  Gospel  never  sheathes  the  sword. 
The  double  stroke  of  wrath  divine  is  suspended  over  the 
head  of  every  impenitent  man.  There  is  love  and  pardon  to 
every  one  who  will*  come,  but  the  isword  is  still  there,  and 
will  surely  slay  all  who  do  not  speedily  come.  With  just 
this  spirit,  and  who  can  go  beyond  the  Gospel?  would  we 
still  hold  the  sword;   Irmly,  unflinchingly,  in  the  words  of 


*  Speecli  at  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  New  York  City,  Nov,  14th,  1864. 


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Paul,'  (Rom.  13:  4),  *'The  minister  of  God,  a  revenger  to 
execute  wrath  upon  him  that  doeth  evil,''  so  long  as  one 
rebel  hand  shall  be  lifted  against  this  government.  We  pro- 
claim no  cruel  war  of  extermination  against  men  of  equal 
rights  with  ourselves,  but  by  our  sacred  oath  of  citizenship, 
we,  as  freemen,  are  bound  to  sustain  this  government,  to  up- 
hold law  and  punish  anarchy  and  treason,  as  truly  as  we 
would  robbery  and  murder.  Christ  taught  us  to  love  our 
enemies,  but  not  to  leave  sin,  unhindered,  to  wreak  its  cruelty 
on  innocence  and  truth.  There  was  a  time  when  even  Jesus 
said,  "  He  that  hath  no  sword  let  him  sell  his  garment  and 
buy  one."  He  meant,  as  we  believe,  such  a  sword  as  God 
would  have  us  now  hold  unsheathed:  one  breathing  no  vin- 
dictive cruelty,  yet  guarding  the  ark  of  justice  and  constitu- 
tional freedom  with  holy  jealousy. 

This  sword  we  have  found  to  be  literally  tioo-edged.  T)io 
nation  rallied  in  self-defence.  Its  Capital  was  threatened. 
The  assassin  aimed  at  the  heart  of  the  government.  We 
sought  to  repel  that  assassin,  to  establish  the  supremacy  of  laAV. 
But,  while  we  intended  it  not,  even  strove  hard  to  prevent  it, 
every  blow  struck  to  defend  the  Union  proved  to  be  a  blow 
upon  the  head  of  slavery.  Every  successful  effort  to  defeat 
the  rebellion  has  resulted  in  emancipation  of  slaves.  We  have 
been  forced  to  become  abolitionists  in  spite  of  ourselves;  and 
even  Jefferson  Davis  finds  himself  iu  nearly  the  same  predica- 
ment. 

God  in  His  providence  has  placed  this  sword  in  our  hand, 
and,  I  repeat,  as  a  nation  we  have  no  right  to  sheathe  it  until 
every  vestige  of  rebellion  and  of  slavery,  the  cause  of  the  rebel- 
lion, be  destroyed  from  our  land.  For, 

\st,  The  very  existence  of  our  government  demands  that  destruc- 
tion.— Slavery  has  irrevocably  wed  itself  to  the  rebellion.  It 
solemnly  asserts  that  it  loill  no  longer  be  allied  v/ith  freedom. 
It  has  chosen  its  partner  for  better  or  worse.  It  will  defend  the 
rebellion  or  j)erish  in  the  ditch.  But  if  the  rebellion  succeeds, 
if  only  the  principle  of  secession  is  sustained,  "The  United 
States'  Government''  is  but  a  name  without  a  reality,  a  ?iw/^?V?/. 

2d.  The  hope  of  peace  also  demands  the  destruction  of  both 
slavery  and  her  vile  paramour,  the  rebellion.  The  rebellion 
scorns  any  offer  of  peace  save  in  separation.  But  separation, 
while  the  Mississippi  River  flows  into  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  can 
mean  nothing  but  interminable   wars   until   first   the  whole 


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Northwest,  and,  finally,  all  tlie  United  States  either  yield  to 
the  despotism  of  Davis  or  become  allied  to  a  foreign  power. 
It  was  no  less  than  this  which  the  rebel  leaders  anticipated. 
They  plotted  "the  roll-call  of  slaves  beneath  the  shadow  of 
Bunker  Hill,"  or  a  reconstruction  with  "iNTew  England  out 
in  the  cold."  There  is  no  alternative  left  us.  It  is  a  war 
to  the  death.  Slavery  and  the  rebellion,  or  freedom  and  the 
United  States  are  to  perish.  So  our  enemies  willed  it ;  so 
God  has  left  it. 

3  c?,  The  cause  of  constitutional  liberty  tkrovghout  tJie  world 
likewise  demands  the  destruction  of  both  rebellion  and  slavery. 
Earth  cannot  furnish  for  the  sacred  tree  more  congenial  soil 
than  everywhere  abounds  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific. 
Heaven  cannot  breathe  more  favoring  gales  than  have  blown 
here.  Suns  and  storms  have  both  conspired  to  make  these 
branches  wide  enough  and  strong  enough  to  protect  the  op- 
pressed from  every  clime.  If  the  rude  blast  of  war  can  over- 
turn this  tree,  if  its  roots  have  taken  no  firm  hold  in  the 
hearts  of  our  people,  the  hopes  of  freemen  must  long  languish 
in  sadness  if  not  utterly  wither  in  despair. 

4:tJi,  Even  the  cause  of  Christianity  demands  that  this  exe- 
crable twain  be  utterly  destroyed.  If  slavery  is  to  be  the 
corner  stone  of  a  growing  empire,  then  Christ  has  died  in 
vain.  He  did  not  come  to  break  "every  yoke."  He  is  not 
the  world's  Deliverer.  The  haughty  Mussulman  may  still 
fling  it  in  the  face  of  our  missionaries,  as  he  has  done  in  the 
past,  Our  Koran  does  not  allow  such  cruelty  as  is  slavery 
in  your  land;"  and  the  pale  crescent  shall  never  wane  be- 
fore the  fabled  (?)  sun  of  Christianity.  The  disciples  of 
Buddha,  too,  those  of  Confucius  and  of  Zoroaster,  nay,  even 
the  disciples  of  Joe  Smith  and  Tom  Paine  may  cope  success- 
fully with  the  disciples  of  Jesus,  and  Christianity  in  vain 
may  hope  to  convert  the  world. 

By  the  blood  of  our  fathers  freely  shed  to  purchase  lib- 
erty, by  the  graves  of  unnumbered  comrades  sacrificed  upon 
the  altar  of  slavery,  by  the  oath  we  swore  in  defense  of  the 
constitution  of  these  United  States,  by  the  homes  we  love, 
by  the  manhood  we  cherish,  by  the  supplications  of  oppressed 
men  everywhere,  and  by  the  Cross  of  Calvary,  set  up  for  a 
world's  redemption,  let  the  sword  two-edged  be  in  our  hand 
till  God  shall  look  down  with  approbation, 

"Where  the  star-spangled  banner  in  triumph  shall  wave 
O'er  the  land  of  the  free  and  the  home  of  no  slave" 


APPENDIX. 


The  Eighth  Regiment  Conn.  Vols.  Infantry  was  mustered  at  Hartford, 
Conn.,  Oct.  5th,  1861,  Col.  Edward  Harland  commanding.    It  left  Hartford 
Oct.  17th,  by  transport,  and  encamped  the  following  day  at  Jamaica,  L.  I. 
The  U.  S.  colors  were  here  presented  to  the  regiment  by  Gen.  P.  M.  Wet- 
more,  in  behalf  of  the  sons  of  Connecticut  in  New  York  city.    From  Ja- 
maica the  regiment  moved  to  Annapolis,  Md.,  where  it  rendezvoused  Nov. 
6.    It  formed  a  part  of  the  famous  "  Burnside  Expedition,"  and  partici- 
pated under  that  ever  loved  General  in  the  following  battles  of  1862. 
Roanoke,  N.  C,  Feb.  Tth  and  8th. 
Newbern,  N.  C,  March  14th. 
Fort  Macon,  N.  C,  April  26th. 
South  Mountain,  Md.,  Sept.  14th. 
Antietam,  Md.,  Sept.  iTth. 
Fredericksburg,  Va.,  Dec.  13th, 

In  all  these  engagements  the  losses  were  small  except  at  Antietam.  There 
the  regiment  was  subjected  to  a  galling  fire  without  supports,  and  left  thirty- 
four  dead  on  the  field.  The  whole  losses  of  that  day  in  this  regiment  footed 
up  two  hundred  and  twenty-one. 

Early  in  February,  1€63,  the  regiment  gladly  broke  camp  at  dreary  Fal- 
mouth, marched  to  Acquia  Creek,  and  was  taken  thence  by  transport  to 
Newport  News.  It  shared  in  the  "  Sie^e  of  Suffolk"  from  April  11th  to 
May  3d  of  that  Spring,  and  bore  honorable  part  among  those  gallant  troops 
which,  during  that  siege,  boldly  charned  out  across  the  Nansemond  at  Hill's 
Point  and  captured  Fort  Huger,  April  19th.  It  shared  also  in  the  so-called 
*' Blackberry  Raid"  up  the  Pamunkey  River  in  July,  and  in  the  raid  to  South 
Mills  and  vicinity  in  September  of  the  same  year.  The  losses  during  the 
campaign  v/ere  few.  The  regiment  went  into  winter  quarters  near  Ports- 
mouth, Va.,  but  having  in  December  re-enlisted  over  300  veterans  for  another 
three  years'  service,  it  received  in  January  and  February,-  1864,  the  thirty 
days  furlough  in  Connecticut. 

In  the  campaign  of  1864,  the  regiment  moved  in  the  reconnoissance  toward 
SuiFolk  April  13th  and  14th;  was  in  the  fight  near  Walthall  Station,  on  the 
Petersburg  and  Richmond  Railroad  May  7th,  with  72  casualties. 

In  the  advance  toward  Petersburg,  at  Swift  Creek,  May  9th,  3 
In  the  advance  toward  Drury's  Bluff,  May  12th  to  the  16th,  65 
The  battles  at  Coal  Harbor,  (Cold  Arbor),  June  1st,  2d  and  3d,  37 
The  charge  on  the  heights  before  Petersburg,  June  15th,  19 
Lay  in  the  trenches  in  front  of  Petersburg,  with  reliefs,  from 

June  21st  to  August  27th,  suffering  in  the  meantime  28  " 

Lost  in  the  rebel  "  Cattle  Raid,"  Sept.  19th,  19  prisoners. 

Led  the  storming  column  which  carried  Fort  Harrison  Sept. 

29th,  64  casualties. 

And  suffered  in  the  attempts  of  the  rebels  to  retake  the 

works,  11  *' 

Three  other  casualties  occurred  at  a  later  date,  making  the  whole  footing 
321.    Deaths  during  the  Summer,  so  far  as  reported,  78. 

The  regiment  became  so  much  reduced  that  on  Oct.  24th  only  90  muskets 
were  borne.  At  that  date  it  was  relieved  from  the  front  and  ordered  for 
guard  duty  at  Corps  (18th)  Headquarters, 

Nov.  29th,  100  recruits  arrived.    (95  actually  received.) 

There  are  present  in  the  regiment,  (Dec.  1st),  7  commissioned  officers  and 
280  enlisted  men.    Total  present,  287. 


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Roster  of  the  Eighth  Regiment  Gonnecticut  Vols., 
at  its  original  mnster,  October  5,  1861. 

FIELD    AND  STAFF. 

Colonel,  EDWARD  HARLAND. 
Lieut.- Colonel,  Petek  L.  Cunningham. 
Major,  Andrew  Terry. 
Adjutant,  Charles  M.  Coit. 
Quartermaster,  Joseph  H.  Alexander. 
Surgeon,  Melancthon  Storrs. 
Iss  Asst.  Surgeon,  De  Witt  C.  Lathrop. 
2d  Asst.  Surgeon,  J.  V  Harrington. 
Chaplain,  Joseph  J.  Woolley. 


NON-COMMISSIONED  STAFF. 

Sergeant-Major,  Moses  A.  Hill. 
Quartermasie?'-Sergeant  David  Clark. 
Co minissary- /Sergeant,  Horace  P.  Gates. 
Hospital  Steward,  Robert  A.  Babbitt. 
Pi'incipal  Musician,  William  H.  Sammis. 


LIISTE    OFFICERS'  ROSTER. 

Co.  A.,  Capt.  Henry  L.  Burpee. 

"      1st  Lieut.,  Henry  M.  Hoyt. 

"      2d  Lieut.,  Wolcott  P.  Marsh. 
Co.  B.,  Capt.  Patrick  K.  Ruth. 

1st  Lieut.  Andrew  W.  Scott. 

"      2d  Lieut.  Francis  D.  Loomis. 
Co.  C,  Capt.  Charles  W.  l^ash. 

"      1st  Lieut.  Samuel  W.  Glasson. 

"      2d  Lieut.  Robert  H.  Burnside. 
Co.  D,  Capt.  J.  Edward  Ward. 

"      1st  Lieut.  James  R.  Moore. 

"      2d  Lieut.  Charles  A.  Breed. 
Co.  E.,  Capt.  Martin  B.  Smith. 

"      1st  Lieut.  Henry  Place. 
2d  Lieut.  Luman  Wadhams. 
Co.  F.,  Capt.  Elijah  Y.  Smith. 

"      1st  Lieut.  Edwin  G-.  Maine. 

"      2d  Lieut.  Jeremiah  M.  Shephard. 
Co.  G.,  Capt.  Hiram  Appleman. 

"      1st  Lieut.  Thomas  D.  Sheffield. 

"      2d  Lieut.  Henry  E.  Morgan. 
Co.  H.,  Capt.  Douglass  Fowler. 

"      1st  Lieut.  James  L.  Russell. 
2d  Lieut.  Thomas  S.  Weed. 


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Co.  I.,  Capt.  Frederick  W.  Jackson. 

"      1st  Lieut.  William  J.  Roberts. 

"  2d  Lieut.  Frederick  E.  ISTearing. 
Co.  K.,  Capt.  CLarles  L.  Upham. 

"      1st  Lieut.  N'oah  P.  Ives. 

"      2d  Lieut.  Roger  M.  Ford. 


PROMOTIONS  IN  THE  EIGHTH  CONN.  VOLS.,  INFANTRY. 

Major  Andrew  Terry  to  be  Lieut.-CoL,  Dec.  23d,  1861. 
Capt.  Hiram  Appleman  to  be  Major,  Dec.  23d,  1861. 
1st  Lieut.  Henry  M.  Hoyt,  Co.  A,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  A,  Dec.  25th,  1861. 
2d  Lieut.  Wolcott  P.  Marsh,  Co.  A.  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  A,  Dec.  25th,  1861. 
Private  Marvin  Waite,  Co.  D,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  A,  Dec.  25th,  1861. 
1st  Lieut.  Thomas  D.  Sheffield,  Co.  G,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  G,  Jan.  1st,  1862. 
2d  Lieut.  Henry  E.  Morgan,  Co.  G,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  G,  Jan.  1st,  1862. 
Sergt.  Andrew  M.  Morgan,  Co.  G,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  G,  Jan.  1st,  1862. 
Private  Jacob  Eaton,  Co.  K,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  B,  Feb.  1st,  1862. 
Sergt.  Charles  Shepherd,  Co.  D,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  B,  Feb.  1st,  1862. 
Capt.  Thos.  D.  Sheffield,  Co.  G,  transferred  to  be  Capt.  Co,  H,  Feb.  26,  1862. 
1st  Lieut.  James  L.  Russell,  Co.  H,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  G,  Feb.  26th,  1862. 
2d  Lieut.  Thomas  S.  Weed,  Co.  H,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  H,  Feb.  26th,  1862. 
Sergt.  Justus  T.  Crosby,  Co.  H,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  H,  Feb.  26th,  1862. 
1st  Lieut.  Samuel  W.  Glasson,  Co.  C,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  C,  March  2d,  1862. 
1st  Sergt.  Eleazar  IL  Ripley,  Co.  D,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  C,  March  2d,  1862. 
Color-Sergt.  William  H.  Cone,  Co.  0,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  C,  March  2d,  1862. 
1st  Sergt.  Nelson  Bronson,  Co.  E,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co  E,  March  I8th,  1862. 
2d  Lieut.  Roger  M.  Ford,  Co.  K,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  K,  March  18,  1862. 
1st  Sergt.  William  H.  Johnson,  Co.  K,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  K,  March  18,  1862. 
Adj.  Charles  M.  Coit,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  B,  March  27th,  1862. 
Commissary  Sergt.  Horace  P.  Gates  to  be  Adjutant,  March  27th,  1862, 
Major  Hiram  Appleman  to  be  Lieut. -Colonel,  March  28th,  1862. 
Capt.  J.  Edward  Ward,  Co.  D,  to  be  Major,  March  28th,  1862. 
1st  Lieut.  James  R.  Moore,  Co.  D,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  D,  March  28th,  1862. 
2d  Lieut.  Charles  A.  Breed,  Co.  D,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  D,  March  28th,  1862, 
Sergt.  John  McCall,  Co.  D,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  D,  March  28th,  1862. 
1st  Lieut.  Wolcott  P.  Marsh,  Co.  A,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  F,  March  28th,  1862. 
2d  Lieut.  Marvin  Waite,  Co.  A,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  A,  March  28th,  1862. 
1st  Sergt.  William  J.  Broatch,  Co.  A,  to  be  2d  Lieut  Co.  A,  March  28,  1862. 
1st  Sergt.  John  T.  Bronson,  Co.  E,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  E,  April  Sth,  1862. 
1st  Sergt.  Milo  J.  Goodrich,  Co.  K,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  K,  April  7th,  1862. 
Corp.  Elam  T.  Goodrich,  Co.  K,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  li,  April  27th,  1862. 
1st  Lieut.  WilUam  J.  Roberts,  Co.  I,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  I,  May  5th,  1862. 
1st  Sergt.  Henry  C.  Hall,  Co.  I,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  I,  May  5th,  1862. 
Sergt.  Daniel  McKinnon,  Co.  I,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  I,  M.ay  Sth,  1862. 
1st  Sergt.  Henry  R.  Jones,  Co.  C,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  C,  June  5th,  1862. 
Sergt. -Major  Edmund  A.  Parker  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  F,  June  ITth,  1862. 
1st  Lieut.  Eleazar  H.  Ripley,  Co.  C,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  C,  Aug.  15th,  1862. 
2d  Lieut.  John  McCall,  Co.  D,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  D,  Aug.  loth,  1862. 
Sergt.  Amos  L.  Keables,  Co.  D,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  I),  x\ug.  I5th,  1862. 
2d  Lieut.  Wm.  J.  Broatch,  Co.  A,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  A,  Sept.  18th,  1862. 
Commissary-Sergt.  Ambrose  M.  Dougherty  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  A,  Sept.  18th, 
1862. 

2d  Lieut.  Elam  T.  Goodrich,  Co.  H,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  B,  Oct.  13th,  1862. 
2d  Lieut.  Andrew  M.  Morgan,  Co.  G,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  F,  Dec.  23d,  1862, 
Private  William  M.  Pratt,  Co.  K,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  G,  Dec.  23d,  1862. 


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Sergt.  Levi  C.  Bingham,  Co.  K,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  H,  Dec.  23d,  1862. 
Sergt.  Frank  W.  Spaulding,  Co.  F,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  E,  Dec.  23d,  1862, 
Sergt.  Anthony  R.  Canfield,  Co.  H,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  F,  Dec,  23d,  1862. 
Major  J.  Edward  Ward  to  be  Lieut. -Colonel,  Dec.  28th,  1862. 
Capt.  Charles  L.  Upham,  Co.  K,  to  be  Major,  Dec.^  28th,  1862. 
2d  Lieut.  Ambrose  M.  Dougherty,  Co.  A,  to  be  Quartermaster,  Jan.  8th, 
1863. 

1st  Lieut.  John  McCall,  Co.  D,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  K,  Feb.  7th,  1863. 
1st  Lieuf.  Henry  C.  Hall,  Co.  I,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  F,  Feb.  7th,  1863. 
1st  Lieut.  Roger  M.  Ford,  Co.  K,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  G,  Feb.  7th,  1863. 
Corp.  Samuel  S.  Foss,  Co.  D,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  A,  Feb.  7th,  1863. 
Sergt.  J.  Alden  Rathburn,  Co.  G,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  C,  Feb.  7th,  1863. 
Lieut. -Col.  J.  Edward  Ward  to  be  Colonel,  March  9th,  1863. 
Major  Charles  L.  Upham  to  be  Lieut. -Colonel,  March  9th,  1863. 
1st  Lieut.  Elam  T.  Goodrich,  Co.  B,  to  be  Capt.  Co.  H,  April  1st,  1863. 
Capt.  Martin  B.  Smith,  Co.  E,  to  be  Lieut. -Colonel,  April  6th,  1863. 
Capt,  Thomas  D.  Sheffield,  formerly  Co.  H,  re-mustered  Capt.  Co.  E,  July 
10th,  1863. 

1st  Sergt.  John  H.  Vorra,  Co.  K,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  K,  Aug.  5th,  1863. 
2d  Lieut.  William  M.  Pratt,  Co.  G,  to  be  Adjutant,  Oct.  21st,  1863. 
2d  Lieut.  J.  Alden  Rathburn,  Co.  C,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  E,  Oct.  21st,  1863. 
2d  Lieut.  Levi  C.  Bingham,  Co.  H,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  G,  Oct.  26th,  1863 
Sergt.  John  S.  Lane,  Co.  I,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  G,  Oct  27th,  1863. 
Sergt.  George  M.  Stevens,  Co.  K,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  C,  Oct.  27th,  1863. 
Commissar3^-Sergt.  John  L.  Merriam  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  H,  Oct.  27th,  1863. 
1st  Sergt.  Charles  N.  Irwin,  Co.  I,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  E,  Nov.  8th,  1863. 
Private  Moses  Smith,  Co.  A,  to  be  Chaplain,  Dec.  22d,  1863. 
Sergt.  Alconzer  0.  Wells,  Co.  G,  to  be  2d  Lieut.  Co.  B,  April  14th,  1864. 
2d  Assistant-Surgeon  James  A.  Bigelow  to  be  1st  Assistant-Surgeon,  June 
2d,  1864. 

1st  Lieut.  Andrew  M.  Morgan,  Co.  F,  to  be  Capt,  Co.  F,  July  22d,  1864. 
2d  Lieut.  Samuel  S.  Foss,  Co.  A,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  A,  July  22d,  1864. 
2d  Lieut.  John  L.  Merriam,  Co.  H,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  F,  July  22 d,  1864. 
1st  Sergt.  Marcus  L.  Pelham,  Co.  H,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  G,  Aug.  23(1,  1864. 
1st  Sergt.  James  B.  Kilbourne,  Co.  F,  to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  K,  Aug.  23d, 
1864. 

1st  Sergt.  Seth  F.  Plumb,  Co.  E,  commissioned  to  be  2d  Lieut,  but  never 
mustered.    Killed  in  action  at  Fort  Harrison,  Va.,  Sept.  29th,  1864. 


PROMOTIONS  FROM  THE  EIGHTH  CONN.  VOLS.,  INFANTRY. 
Col.  Edward  Harland  to  be  Brigadier-General. 

Lieut.-Col.  Charles  L.  Upham  to  be  Colonel  of  15th  Conn.  Vols.,  Infantry. 
Adj.  Horace  P.  Gates  to  be  Captain  and  A.  A. -General  on  Gen.  Harland's 
statf. 

1st  Lieut.  Noah  P.  Ives  to  be  Captain  Commissary  Subsistence. 

Sergt -Major  Moses  A.  Hill  to  be  1st  Lieut  5th  Battalion  R.  I.  Vols,  and 

since  to  be  Captain  Commissary  Subsistence. 
Sergt -Major  William  R.  Palmer  to  be  Captain  Commissary  Subsistence. 
1st  Assistant-Surgeon  H.  V.  C.  Holcomb  to  be  Surgeon  of  15th  Conn.  Vols,, 

Infantry. 

1st  Assistant-Surgeon  Sabin  Stocking  to  be  Surgeon  of  I7th  Conn.  Vols., 
Infantry. 

Hospital  Steward  Robert  A.  Babbitt  to  be  Surgeon  of  1st  N.  C.  Vols. 
Infantry. 

Private  Charles  Dixon,  Co.  K,  to  be  Chaplain  of  16th  Conn.  Vols.,  Infantry. 
Sergt  Heber  S.  Ives,  Co.  K,  to  be  2d  Lieut  in  15th  Conn.  Vols..  Infantry. 


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Color-Sergt.  William  Simmons,  Co.  F,  to  be  2d  Lieut,  in  5th  U.  S,  Colored 
Infantry. 

Color-Sergt.  J^cob  Bishop,  Co.  H,  to  be  2d  Lieut,  in  5th  U.  S.  Colored 
Infantry. 

Capt.  James  L.  Russell,  Co.  G,  now  Ist  Lieut,  in  XJ.  S.  Veteran  Reserve. 
Capt.  Eleazar  H.  Ripley,  Co.  C,  transferred  to  be  Captain  in  U.  S.  Veteran 
Reserve. 

1  St  Lieut.  William  J.  Broatch,  now  2d  Lieut.  U.  S.  Regulars. 
Capt.  Douglass  Fowler,  Co.  H,  afterwards  Lieut.-Col.  of  17th  Conn.  Vols., 
Infantry. 

2d  Lieut.  William  H.  Cone,  Co.  C,  afterwards  Captain  in  16th  Conn.  Vols.^ 
Infantry. 

2d  Lieut.  Jeremiah  M.  Shephard,  Co.  F,  afterwards  Captain  in  21st  Conn, 
Vols.,  Infantry. 

2d  Lieut.  Luman  Wadhams,  Co.  E,  afterwards  Captain  in  2d  Conn.  Artillery. 
2d  Lieut.  Justus  T  Crosby,  Co.  H,  now  Captain  in  2d  N.  Y.  Artillery. 
1st  Lieut.  Jacob  Eaton,  Co.  B,  now  Chaplain  of  7th  Conn.  Vols.,  Infantry. 
1st  Sergt.  Amos  Cliff,  Co.  G,  now  1st  Lieut,  in  1st  Conn.  Cavalry. 
Private  V/alter  D.  Monson,  Co.  E,  now  Quartermaster  of  2d  U.  S.  Cavalry^ 
colored. 

1st  Lieut.  Nelson  Bronson,  Co.  E,  now  1st  Lieut,  in  U.  S.  Veteran  Reserve. 
In  the  original  muster  the  regiment  contained — 

Commissioned  Officers,  39.    (Field  and  Staff,  9 ;  Line  Officers,  30.) 
Enlisted  Men,  983.    (Non-com.  Staff,  5  ;  Companies,  978.) 
Total,  1,022. 

The  regiment  has  gained  since  its  original  muster,  in  commissioned  offi- 
cers, 11.    Enlisted  men,  563. 

The  whole  number  on  the  Regimental  Books  1,596. 
The  losses  of  the  regiment  have  been — 

By  death,  218.    (Com.  officers,  11 ;  enlisted  men,  207.) 

Discharge,  443.    (Com.  ofiicers,  49  ;  enlisted  men,  394.) 

Transfer,  77.    (Com.  officers,  7 ;  enlisted  men,  70.) 

Desertion,  130. 

Total  losses,  868. 
The  aggregate  present  and  absent  at  this  date,  Dec.  1st,  is — 

Commissioned  officers,  19.    (Field  and  staff,  7;  Line  ofiicers,  12.) 

Enlisted  men,  709.    (Non-com.  staff,  5  ;  Companies,  704.) 
Total,  728. 


Present  Eoster  of  Eighth'Gonn.  Veteran  Vols.,  Infantry. 

FIELD    AND  STAFF. 

Colon FL,  J.  EDWARD  WARD,  mustered  March  9th,  1863, 
Lieut.. Colonel,  Martin  B.  Smith,  mustered  Apnl  6th,  1863. 

Major,    

Surgeon,  ■    

Chaplain,  Moses  Smith,  mustered  Dec.  22d,  1863. 
Adjutant,  William  M.  Peatt,  mustered  Oct.  21st,  1863. 
Quartermaster,  John  L.  Merriam,  mustered  Oct.  20th,  1864. 
1st  Assistant  Surgeon,  James  A.  Bigelow,  mustered  April  6th, 
1863. 

2d  Assistant  Surgeon,  Theodore  E.  Hamilton,  mustered  June 
29th,  1864. 


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J^ON- COM  MISSIONED  STAFF. 

Sergt.-3Iajor,     

Q.  M.  Sergt.,  Frederick  Gallup. 
Commissary  Sergt.,  Silas  P.  Keeler. 
Hospital  Steward,  Willet  W.  Kingsley. 
Principal  3fusician^  George  W.  Farnham. 
Principal  3Iusicia9i,  William  Kerr. 


LIlsTE  OFFICEKS. 

Co.  A,  Capt.  

"     "    ist  Lieut.  Samuel  S.  Foss,  mustered  July  2 2d,  1864, 

"         2d  Lieut.  

Co.  B,  Capt.  Charles  M.  Coit,  mustered  March  27th,  1862. 

"     "   1st  Lieut.  Sidney  B.  Dekay,  mustered  May  25th,  1864, 

"     "   2d  Lieut.  

Co.  C,  Capt.  

"    "   1st  Lieut.  

"     "   2d  Lieut.  

Co.  D,  Capt.  James  R.  Moore,  mustered  March  28th,  1862. 

"     "    1st  Lieut. 

"  "  2d  Lieut.  Amos  L.  Keables,  mustered  Aug.  15th,  1862, 
Co.  E,  Capt.  Thomas  D,  Sheffield,  mustered  July  10th,  1863. 

"     "    1st  Lieut.  J.  Alden  Rathburn,  mustered  Oct.  21st,  1863. 

"     "  ■  2d  Lieut.  — —  - — — 
Co.  F,  Capt.  Andrew  M.  Morgan,  mustered  July  22d,  1864. 

"    "    1st  Lieut.  —  «™ — — 

"    "    2d  Lieut.  -  _» 
Co.  G,  Capt.  —  — - — - 

"    "   1st  Lieut.  Marcus  L.  Pelham,  mustered  Aug.  23d,  1864. 

"    "   2d  Lieut.  

Co.  H.  Capt.  

"    "   1st  Lieut.    ■ 

"     "   2d  Lieut.  

Co.  I,  Capt.  William  J.  Roberts,  mustered  May  5th,  1862. 

"    "  1st  Lieut.  

"    "  2d  Lieut.  

Co.  K,  Capt.  George  C.  Merriam,  mustered  Nov.  4th,  1864. 

"     "   1st  Lieut.  

"     "   2d  Lieut.  John  H.  Von-a,  mustered  Aug.  5th,  1863. 


OTHERS    WHO    kAVE    HELD    COMMISSIONS   IN   EIGHTH   CONN.  Y0LS,y 

INFANTRY. 

Levi  S,  Pease,  2d  Assistant-Surgeon,  resigned. 
John  M.  Morris,  Chaplain,  resigned. 

Alfred  M.  Goddard,  1st  Lieut,  Co.  B,  killed  in  action,  May  1th, 
1864. 

Erwin  D.  Hall,  2d  Lieut.  Co.  I,  discharged  on  account  of  wounds. 


